As a caring person, we know that you care about the 11,000 people living in Melbourne right now who are at risk of homelessness, hunger and being sent back to harm due to an unfair refugee determination process. Around 10,000 people seeking protection in Melbourne will run out of food this month, and cannot afford
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At ASRC Dandenong have just launched the first Art and English Language class, resulting in some very impressive works. In fact, the class has been so popular that another five week course will be run on Thursday afternoons starting in May. This is a new initiative that breaks away from the traditional English language class
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Since early 2015, speech pathologist Tracy Littlejohn has been volunteering at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Dandenong, working with members to improve their spoken English. “Most people seeking asylum who I work with don’t have speech impairments, but do have difficulty effectively communicating in English,” Tracy explained. “This can be due to difficulty in
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Yesterday the ASRC released poll data conducted by ReachTEL and commissioned by The Australian Institute, The poll showed that the majority of voters in the Prime Minister’s electorate believe women, children and families should be removed from detention in Nauru and processed in Australia. The poll was taken in the electorates of Wentworth and North Sydney on 28 November 2015
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By empowering herself to speak up Sadi secured a simple but vital right for her son: to experience, learn and grow as his friends do. This is her story. Last month, Sadi was faced with telling her son that, yet again, she could not afford to send him on a school excursion. With the family
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